100 Best Companies to Work for 2010
The Great Place to Work® Institute has released the list of 100 Best Companies to Work for 2010. The Employee Ownership Blog notes how eight of the companies are employee owned in Fortune Magazine's 2010 List of 100 Best Companies to Work For Features Employee Owned Companies:
Eight of the companies on the list are employee owned (highlighted names are ESOP Association members):
Robert W. Baird & Co.
W.L. Gore & Associates
PCL Construction Enterprises
Scooter Store
TDIndustries
QuikTrip
Publix Super Markets
Herman Miller
..."Employee owned companies are out there doing exactly as intended, creating great places to work," said J. Michael Keeling, president of The ESOP Association. "Our nation's leaders should be looking to these companies and examining business practices and culture to help make our economy stronger."
We have also noted how more than half of the featured companies have had some form of a broad-based employee ownership program in 2009, 2008, and 2007. Unfortunately, the CNNMoney website one again does not list employee ownership as a benefit, as it does for healthcare, childcare, work-life balance, telecommuting, sabbaticals, and unusual perks.